FYI---Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted for Fraud and Money-Laundering

[Guest guest]

I don’t know how many of you may have seen this, but

I felt it was important to share and pass on. Perhaps we could say this is

another nail in the coffin of yet another very broken and corrupt Agency within

the Federal Government?

~~Ruth

LINK: http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/04/22/autism-and-vaccines-researcher-for-cdc-indicted-for-fraud-and-money-laundering/

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

Submitted by Lois

Rain on April 22, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Remember

when the vaccine mercury/autism link was supposedly debunked? Poul Thorsen, a

Danish scientist who coordinated the CDC-funded “debunking”

studies, was indicted on April 13th for 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of

money-laundering. Charges relate to his work for the CDC to study correlations

between thimerosal (mercury-based vaccine preservative) and the increased rates

of autism, among other infant and childhood disabilities he studied. He

allegedly stole around $1 million from Atlanta’s

CDC autism research money. The fraud charges have to do with dozens of invoices

he submitted for “expenses.” The invoices falsely claimed

laboratory work from the CDC.

SafeMinds group has closely watched

vaccine-autism data brought forth since 2001. Read below about the

incongruities they discovered in Thorsen’s work and his emails compelling

the CDC to compel the journal Pediatrics to publish his work as a “strong

piece of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism.” Due to

Thorsen’s misconduct, SafeMinds and Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs are

calling for independent federal investigation for data manipulation.

~Health Freedoms

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

SafeMinds demands long-overdue independent review of

vaccine/autism research for data manipulation and conflicts of interest.

Vaccine safety remains questionable.

Atlanta- Poul Thorsen, the principal coordinator of multiple

studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used to

deny a vaccine/autism link was indicted on April 13th on 13 counts

of fraud and 9 counts of money laundering. The charges relate to funding for

work he conducted for the CDC, which claimed to disprove associations between

the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, and increased rates of

autism.

SafeMinds first voiced concerns in 2003 regarding a series of

epidemiology studies out of Denmark

and under the jurisdiction of Thorsen that provided the basis for the Institute of Medicine’s claim that there was no

association between thimerosal and autism. That claim has been responsible for

the continued unsafe use of mercury in influenza vaccines in the United States

and infant vaccines around the world.

“The quality of this epidemiological research has always

been questionable,” states Sallie Bernard, SafeMinds president.

“Many biological studies support a link between mercury and autism, but

these Danish studies have been used to suppress further research into

thimerosal. With clear evidence of Dr. Thorsen’s lack of ethics, it is

imperative to reopen this investigation.”

From August to October of 2003, three articles on the

autism treatment controversy were published in close succession, all of which

used data from a Danish registry for psychiatric research to assess the

relationship between autism trends and the use of thimerosal. SafeMinds accessed

the registry at the time and reported that a large percentage of diagnosed

autism cases are lost from the Danish registry each year and that most of those

lost cases were older children. Since the studies were based on finding fewer

older thimerosal-exposed children than younger unexposed children, the validity

of their conclusion exonerating thimerosal in autism was questionable and

likely a result of missing records rather than true lower incidence rates among

the exposed group.

In addition, internal emails obtained via FOIA document discussion

between the Danish researchers and Thornsen which acknowledge that the studies

did not include the latest data from 2001 where the incidence and prevalence of

autism was declining which would be supportive of a vaccine connection.

The emails also include requests from Thornsen to CDC asking that

the agency write letters to the journal Pediatrics encouraging them to publish

the research after it had been rejected by other journals. A top CDC official

complied with the request sending a letter to the editor of the journal

supporting the publication of the study which they called a “strong piece

of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism”.

As fraud charges regarding Thorsen surface, and as we believe the registry

was unreliable, SafeMinds is calling for an independent federal investigation

of these studies for data manipulation and scientific misconduct. Further

background information on these studies, the charges against Dr. Thorsen, and

documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that support

SafeMinds’ concerns are available on our website, www.safeminds.org.

Sources:

http://www.safeminds.org/news/documents/Thorsen%20Indictment%204%2014%202011%20with%20links.pdf

http://www.sunherald.com/2011/04/19/3040322/vaccine-autism-researcher-indicted.html#storylink=misearch

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/04/13/dane-indicted-for-defrauding-cdc.html

[Guest guest]

I don’t know how many of you may have seen this, but

I felt it was important to share and pass on. Perhaps we could say this is

another nail in the coffin of yet another very broken and corrupt Agency within

the Federal Government?

~~Ruth

LINK: http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/04/22/autism-and-vaccines-researcher-for-cdc-indicted-for-fraud-and-money-laundering/

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

Submitted by Lois

Rain on April 22, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Remember

when the vaccine mercury/autism link was supposedly debunked? Poul Thorsen, a

Danish scientist who coordinated the CDC-funded “debunking”

studies, was indicted on April 13th for 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of

money-laundering. Charges relate to his work for the CDC to study correlations

between thimerosal (mercury-based vaccine preservative) and the increased rates

of autism, among other infant and childhood disabilities he studied. He

allegedly stole around $1 million from Atlanta’s

CDC autism research money. The fraud charges have to do with dozens of invoices

he submitted for “expenses.” The invoices falsely claimed

laboratory work from the CDC.

SafeMinds group has closely watched

vaccine-autism data brought forth since 2001. Read below about the

incongruities they discovered in Thorsen’s work and his emails compelling

the CDC to compel the journal Pediatrics to publish his work as a “strong

piece of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism.” Due to

Thorsen’s misconduct, SafeMinds and Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs are

calling for independent federal investigation for data manipulation.

~Health Freedoms

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

SafeMinds demands long-overdue independent review of

vaccine/autism research for data manipulation and conflicts of interest.

Vaccine safety remains questionable.

Atlanta- Poul Thorsen, the principal coordinator of multiple

studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used to

deny a vaccine/autism link was indicted on April 13th on 13 counts

of fraud and 9 counts of money laundering. The charges relate to funding for

work he conducted for the CDC, which claimed to disprove associations between

the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, and increased rates of

autism.

SafeMinds first voiced concerns in 2003 regarding a series of

epidemiology studies out of Denmark

and under the jurisdiction of Thorsen that provided the basis for the Institute of Medicine’s claim that there was no

association between thimerosal and autism. That claim has been responsible for

the continued unsafe use of mercury in influenza vaccines in the United States

and infant vaccines around the world.

“The quality of this epidemiological research has always

been questionable,” states Sallie Bernard, SafeMinds president.

“Many biological studies support a link between mercury and autism, but

these Danish studies have been used to suppress further research into

thimerosal. With clear evidence of Dr. Thorsen’s lack of ethics, it is

imperative to reopen this investigation.”

From August to October of 2003, three articles on the

autism treatment controversy were published in close succession, all of which

used data from a Danish registry for psychiatric research to assess the

relationship between autism trends and the use of thimerosal. SafeMinds accessed

the registry at the time and reported that a large percentage of diagnosed

autism cases are lost from the Danish registry each year and that most of those

lost cases were older children. Since the studies were based on finding fewer

older thimerosal-exposed children than younger unexposed children, the validity

of their conclusion exonerating thimerosal in autism was questionable and

likely a result of missing records rather than true lower incidence rates among

the exposed group.

In addition, internal emails obtained via FOIA document discussion

between the Danish researchers and Thornsen which acknowledge that the studies

did not include the latest data from 2001 where the incidence and prevalence of

autism was declining which would be supportive of a vaccine connection.

The emails also include requests from Thornsen to CDC asking that

the agency write letters to the journal Pediatrics encouraging them to publish

the research after it had been rejected by other journals. A top CDC official

complied with the request sending a letter to the editor of the journal

supporting the publication of the study which they called a “strong piece

of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism”.

As fraud charges regarding Thorsen surface, and as we believe the registry

was unreliable, SafeMinds is calling for an independent federal investigation

of these studies for data manipulation and scientific misconduct. Further

background information on these studies, the charges against Dr. Thorsen, and

documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that support

SafeMinds’ concerns are available on our website, www.safeminds.org.

Sources:

http://www.safeminds.org/news/documents/Thorsen%20Indictment%204%2014%202011%20with%20links.pdf

http://www.sunherald.com/2011/04/19/3040322/vaccine-autism-researcher-indicted.html#storylink=misearch

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/04/13/dane-indicted-for-defrauding-cdc.html

[Guest guest]

I don’t know how many of you may have seen this, but

I felt it was important to share and pass on. Perhaps we could say this is

another nail in the coffin of yet another very broken and corrupt Agency within

the Federal Government?

~~Ruth

LINK: http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/04/22/autism-and-vaccines-researcher-for-cdc-indicted-for-fraud-and-money-laundering/

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

Submitted by Lois

Rain on April 22, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Remember

when the vaccine mercury/autism link was supposedly debunked? Poul Thorsen, a

Danish scientist who coordinated the CDC-funded “debunking”

studies, was indicted on April 13th for 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of

money-laundering. Charges relate to his work for the CDC to study correlations

between thimerosal (mercury-based vaccine preservative) and the increased rates

of autism, among other infant and childhood disabilities he studied. He

allegedly stole around $1 million from Atlanta’s

CDC autism research money. The fraud charges have to do with dozens of invoices

he submitted for “expenses.” The invoices falsely claimed

laboratory work from the CDC.

SafeMinds group has closely watched

vaccine-autism data brought forth since 2001. Read below about the

incongruities they discovered in Thorsen’s work and his emails compelling

the CDC to compel the journal Pediatrics to publish his work as a “strong

piece of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism.” Due to

Thorsen’s misconduct, SafeMinds and Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs are

calling for independent federal investigation for data manipulation.

~Health Freedoms

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

SafeMinds demands long-overdue independent review of

vaccine/autism research for data manipulation and conflicts of interest.

Vaccine safety remains questionable.

Atlanta- Poul Thorsen, the principal coordinator of multiple

studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used to

deny a vaccine/autism link was indicted on April 13th on 13 counts

of fraud and 9 counts of money laundering. The charges relate to funding for

work he conducted for the CDC, which claimed to disprove associations between

the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, and increased rates of

autism.

SafeMinds first voiced concerns in 2003 regarding a series of

epidemiology studies out of Denmark

and under the jurisdiction of Thorsen that provided the basis for the Institute of Medicine’s claim that there was no

association between thimerosal and autism. That claim has been responsible for

the continued unsafe use of mercury in influenza vaccines in the United States

and infant vaccines around the world.

“The quality of this epidemiological research has always

been questionable,” states Sallie Bernard, SafeMinds president.

“Many biological studies support a link between mercury and autism, but

these Danish studies have been used to suppress further research into

thimerosal. With clear evidence of Dr. Thorsen’s lack of ethics, it is

imperative to reopen this investigation.”

From August to October of 2003, three articles on the

autism treatment controversy were published in close succession, all of which

used data from a Danish registry for psychiatric research to assess the

relationship between autism trends and the use of thimerosal. SafeMinds accessed

the registry at the time and reported that a large percentage of diagnosed

autism cases are lost from the Danish registry each year and that most of those

lost cases were older children. Since the studies were based on finding fewer

older thimerosal-exposed children than younger unexposed children, the validity

of their conclusion exonerating thimerosal in autism was questionable and

likely a result of missing records rather than true lower incidence rates among

the exposed group.

In addition, internal emails obtained via FOIA document discussion

between the Danish researchers and Thornsen which acknowledge that the studies

did not include the latest data from 2001 where the incidence and prevalence of

autism was declining which would be supportive of a vaccine connection.

The emails also include requests from Thornsen to CDC asking that

the agency write letters to the journal Pediatrics encouraging them to publish

the research after it had been rejected by other journals. A top CDC official

complied with the request sending a letter to the editor of the journal

supporting the publication of the study which they called a “strong piece

of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism”.

As fraud charges regarding Thorsen surface, and as we believe the registry

was unreliable, SafeMinds is calling for an independent federal investigation

of these studies for data manipulation and scientific misconduct. Further

background information on these studies, the charges against Dr. Thorsen, and

documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that support

SafeMinds’ concerns are available on our website, www.safeminds.org.

Sources:

http://www.safeminds.org/news/documents/Thorsen%20Indictment%204%2014%202011%20with%20links.pdf

http://www.sunherald.com/2011/04/19/3040322/vaccine-autism-researcher-indicted.html#storylink=misearch

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/04/13/dane-indicted-for-defrauding-cdc.html

[Guest guest]

I don’t know how many of you may have seen this, but

I felt it was important to share and pass on. Perhaps we could say this is

another nail in the coffin of yet another very broken and corrupt Agency within

the Federal Government?

~~Ruth

LINK: http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/04/22/autism-and-vaccines-researcher-for-cdc-indicted-for-fraud-and-money-laundering/

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

Submitted by Lois

Rain on April 22, 2011 – 1:30 pm

Remember

when the vaccine mercury/autism link was supposedly debunked? Poul Thorsen, a

Danish scientist who coordinated the CDC-funded “debunking”

studies, was indicted on April 13th for 13 counts of fraud and 9 counts of

money-laundering. Charges relate to his work for the CDC to study correlations

between thimerosal (mercury-based vaccine preservative) and the increased rates

of autism, among other infant and childhood disabilities he studied. He

allegedly stole around $1 million from Atlanta’s

CDC autism research money. The fraud charges have to do with dozens of invoices

he submitted for “expenses.” The invoices falsely claimed

laboratory work from the CDC.

SafeMinds group has closely watched

vaccine-autism data brought forth since 2001. Read below about the

incongruities they discovered in Thorsen’s work and his emails compelling

the CDC to compel the journal Pediatrics to publish his work as a “strong

piece of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism.” Due to

Thorsen’s misconduct, SafeMinds and Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs are

calling for independent federal investigation for data manipulation.

~Health Freedoms

Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted

for Fraud and Money-Laundering

SafeMinds demands long-overdue independent review of

vaccine/autism research for data manipulation and conflicts of interest.

Vaccine safety remains questionable.

Atlanta- Poul Thorsen, the principal coordinator of multiple

studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used to

deny a vaccine/autism link was indicted on April 13th on 13 counts

of fraud and 9 counts of money laundering. The charges relate to funding for

work he conducted for the CDC, which claimed to disprove associations between

the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, and increased rates of

autism.

SafeMinds first voiced concerns in 2003 regarding a series of

epidemiology studies out of Denmark

and under the jurisdiction of Thorsen that provided the basis for the Institute of Medicine’s claim that there was no

association between thimerosal and autism. That claim has been responsible for

the continued unsafe use of mercury in influenza vaccines in the United States

and infant vaccines around the world.

“The quality of this epidemiological research has always

been questionable,” states Sallie Bernard, SafeMinds president.

“Many biological studies support a link between mercury and autism, but

these Danish studies have been used to suppress further research into

thimerosal. With clear evidence of Dr. Thorsen’s lack of ethics, it is

imperative to reopen this investigation.”

From August to October of 2003, three articles on the

autism treatment controversy were published in close succession, all of which

used data from a Danish registry for psychiatric research to assess the

relationship between autism trends and the use of thimerosal. SafeMinds accessed

the registry at the time and reported that a large percentage of diagnosed

autism cases are lost from the Danish registry each year and that most of those

lost cases were older children. Since the studies were based on finding fewer

older thimerosal-exposed children than younger unexposed children, the validity

of their conclusion exonerating thimerosal in autism was questionable and

likely a result of missing records rather than true lower incidence rates among

the exposed group.

In addition, internal emails obtained via FOIA document discussion

between the Danish researchers and Thornsen which acknowledge that the studies

did not include the latest data from 2001 where the incidence and prevalence of

autism was declining which would be supportive of a vaccine connection.

The emails also include requests from Thornsen to CDC asking that

the agency write letters to the journal Pediatrics encouraging them to publish

the research after it had been rejected by other journals. A top CDC official

complied with the request sending a letter to the editor of the journal

supporting the publication of the study which they called a “strong piece

of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to autism”.

As fraud charges regarding Thorsen surface, and as we believe the registry

was unreliable, SafeMinds is calling for an independent federal investigation

of these studies for data manipulation and scientific misconduct. Further

background information on these studies, the charges against Dr. Thorsen, and

documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that support

SafeMinds’ concerns are available on our website, www.safeminds.org.

Sources:

http://www.safeminds.org/news/documents/Thorsen%20Indictment%204%2014%202011%20with%20links.pdf

http://www.sunherald.com/2011/04/19/3040322/vaccine-autism-researcher-indicted.html#storylink=misearch

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2011/04/13/dane-indicted-for-defrauding-cdc.html